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PrairyErth
by William Least Heat-Moon
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395486025
- ISBN 13
- 9780395486023
- Seller
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Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
From inside dust jacket: "PrairyErth is a vigorous and exalted evocation of the American land, its people, its past, its hopes. The very word "prairyerth," an old geologic term for the soils of our central grasslands, captures the essence of the Americal tallgrass country. Only a writer of William Least Heat-Moon's gifts could find in a single Kansas county the narrative of an epic, the nonfiction equivalent of the great American Novel."
"Instead of traveling endless miles, [the author] takes us on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history, in one fragment of the Great Plains."
Chase County is a sparsely populated tract in the Flint Hills of central Kansas. PrairyErth lovingly details its 744 square miles and 3,000 souls till it looms as large as the universe while remaining as initimate as a village.
Book - Fine condition. Tan paper over boards w navy cloth spine and gold gilt text. I did note one creased corner. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Fine condition. Very minimal edge/corner wear.
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624 pages.
Synopsis
Three months on the New York Times bestseller list, PrairyErth is now in paperback. Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece." Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot to take readers on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history in the Flint Hills of central Kansas.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1916
- Title
- PrairyErth
- Author
- William Least Heat-Moon
- Format/Binding
- Paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- 1st ed., jacket has book club edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395486025
- ISBN 13
- 9780395486023
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 624
- Keywords
- Kansas, history, grasslands, tall grass prairie, Flint Hills
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - American; History - Kansas;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
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Independence, Missouri
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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